Ever laughed off the moment you gave yourself away? Maybe it was a joke that landed wrong, or eye contact that came a beat too late. Dr. Regina McMenomy, Ph.D. unpacks a kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with how much sleep you got: instead, it's from the constant tension of monitoring your own performance while reading everyone else's reactions in real time.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• What people-pleasing actually feels like from the inside for a lot of late-diagnosed adults
• How people-pleasing and masking are linked, with people-pleasing acting as the mechanism through which a masked version of yourself earns approval
• What changes in your relationships when you stop crafting every sentence for maximum smoothness and start just saying the thing

If you've spent years dismissing this te ...